Death of the music magazine

The music magazine industry is on the decline, NME reported a 14%  drop year on year to 27’650 sales a 4.7% decline compared to the previous six months. The music press have had huge competition from free information online, think, why would you pay for a magazine when you could get all of the information that you could get from a magazine for free, practically the only thing music magazines have now that the internet can’t give you is a free gift like a CD when you buy them, but with illegal downloads being popular at the moment you can get free music off the internet, also with things like MySpace and YouTube where you can listen to pretty much all music for free, you don’t really need some critic saying if a band is good or not, you can just find out for yourself, if you want to look something up about the band, you don’t just sit around waiting for the next issue of Kerrang, Big Cheese or Mojo and hope that they talk about the band you want to know more about, you simply type their name into Google or Bing and go and look them up on Wikipedia, in the more modern world magazines are slowly becoming more obsolete, yes it will be sad to see them go, but we don’t really need them, even if the industries that make the magazines stop selling them, its not like they will be forced to go out of business, its as simple as having your information on the internet and get your profit from advertising, that is how free magazines like Fly magazine gets its profit, through loads of advertising.